The Taliban extensively used trenches in Afghanistan 2001 and prior.It is used for trench warfare, which is exactly what this is.
I think the US would use them in a second if the situation called for it. The thing is, I suspect it is more about stealth now then trench once the heavy bomber starts circling.Sure, but this explains exactly why the US doesn’t use them. We are too smart.
If the US engaged in this clusterfuck, they wouldn't bother with the trenches. They'd annihilate the AA from a distance, destroy everything big enough to be a supply depot, rail depot, airport, command center, or manufacturing center within 500km of the border, then after a very brief leaflet campaign encouraging everyone within 10mkm of the current zone of conflict to retreat, they'd cluster bomb the entire LOC+50km for about 24h. Whatever was leftover could be handled by boots on the ground.It is used for trench warfare, which is exactly what this is.
What do you believe are the current Russian strategic targets? Is it an all-out front defense testing, or are they advancing against entrenched Ukrainian positions without considering losses?Some news from the fighting:
"Ukrainian military had 50 combat engagements with Russian forces near Terny of Donetsk region, Bilohorivka of Luhansk region, Vyyimka, Spirne, Bohdanivka, Klischiyivka of Donetsk region, Novokalynove, Berdychi and Netaylove of Donetsk region, Heorhiyivka, Novomykhaylivka, Staromayorske of Donetsk region and Robotyne of Zaporizhzhia region, - General Staff of Armed Forces of Ukraine says in the evening report"
"At Kherson direction Russian army shelled Nikopol of Dnipropetrovsk region, Kherson city, Zmiyivka, Krynky, Tyahynka of Kherson region, - General Staff of Armed Forces of Ukraine says in the evening report"
"At Novopavlivka direction Russian army shelled Heorhiyivka, Paraskoviyivka, Kostyantynivka, Vuhledar of Donetsk region. Russian aviation conducted airstrikes at Krasnohorivka and Urozhayne of Donetsk region, - General Staff of Armed Forces of Ukraine says in the evening report"
"At Bakhmut direction Russian army shelled Bohdanivka, Kalynivka, Chasiv Yar of Donetsk region. Russian aviation conducted airstrikes at Slovyansk, Verkhnokamyanske and Hryhorivka of Donetsk region, - General Staff of Armed Forces of Ukraine says in the evening report"
This. Only a pisshead laughs at or dismisses American SEAD. Baghdad was the most heavily defended city in the world at that time wasn't it? And Iraq had the world's 6th largest air force. Didn't matter.
If not air power, how else do you get a military of that size and dispersion to die or surrender in that amount of time, en masse? Pretty funny to hear people try to act smart about Russia eating shit for two years, pretend America and Friends cleaning the clocks of huge armies either never happened or was riddled with failure.
Depends on what you mean by ‘finish’, and I’m not aware of any war that had that aim. (Not even the Germans in WW2 had the goal of destroying Russia as a concept)No war will ever 'finish' Russia. No war ever has and many have tried.
Russia can only be changed from within and has been so many times before. The key is for the people to say enough is enough. Russia knows that and is trying to use it on western nations trying to get the people (MAGAts) and other right wing extremists to rise up against established governments.
This current phase will not end by western arms. It will only end when the Russian people want it to end enough that they, from within overthrow Silly Putty and his clones.
Kharkiv is being destroyed a little more day by day now, it's accelerating. Ukraine's 2nd largest city with almost 1.5 million residents on a good day. They'll soon be forced to flee en masse. Where are they to go? Where do you put upward of 1.5 million people? My home state of West Virginia barely has more people than that. I may as well be asking, "Where do you put the population of West Virginia?"
Where do you put the people of Vermont & Wyoming?
Where do you put the people of D.C. and Alaska?
Where do you put the people of the Dakotas?
Where do you put the people of Delaware?
Where do you put the people of Rhode Island?
Where do you put the people of Montana, or Maine, or the entire fuckin' island of goddam Hawaii?
It is presumed that Russia will be settings their sights on trying to take Kharkiv in a couple months, which is probably why they've ramped up bombing the place to soften it up after having largely ignored it for a long time.
I bring this up due to this article and also due to Chasiv Yar. Chasiv Yar, a final key city to Donbas, has been completely destroyed before a single Russian even put a boot within the city on their current offensive drive. This is Russia's style, pick a city to take over, and obliterate it leaving the defenders to fight from within the ruins. That is what is currently being done to Kharkiv, preemptively. It's a signal of priority targetting. Russia is telegraphing what is on their to-do list.
Where is our chemical warfare program?
WTF are we doing?
- Our enemies have them.
- Our enemies use them.
Russian troops are carrying out “systematic” chemical weapons attacks on Ukrainian troops across the frontline - The Telegraph
Isn’t this the same outlet that said Russians were taking chips from washing machines because they were needed to repair equipment?
Russia is fixing weapons with fridge and dishwasher parts
Western sanctions making it virtually impossible for Kremlin’s armed forces to secure correct components to fix military machineswww.telegraph.co.uk
This same outlet also said Wagner had resorted to using shovels because they were running low on ammunition.
Oh ya, they also propped up the ‘Ghost of Kiev’, which we all know was just more Ukrainian propaganda.
If you want to see what being propagandized looks like, look no further than Jaskalas!
BTW, nice use of the bold lettering and bullet points, really helps DRIVE the point across!
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Newsweek only posts sensational articles to get clicks. It's a shitty news source.It's such a shame we have to deal with an infestation of Orange Locusts.
Video of Donald Trump Supporter Saying They'd Vote for Putin Goes Viral
"Putin wants to go back to good morality," a Trump supporter said in the viral video.
Trump's RNC Chair Includes Ukraine in List of US Adversaries
Trump's hand-picked RNC Chair, Michael Whatley, listed Ukraine with China and Iran among aggressive countries on the world front.
Ike would have run them all out of the country.
It's such a shame we have to deal with an infestation of Orange Locusts.
Video of Donald Trump Supporter Saying They'd Vote for Putin Goes Viral
"Putin wants to go back to good morality," a Trump supporter said in the viral video.
Trump's RNC Chair Includes Ukraine in List of US Adversaries
Trump's hand-picked RNC Chair, Michael Whatley, listed Ukraine with China and Iran among aggressive countries on the world front.
Ike would have run them all out of the country.
Isn’t this the same outlet that said Russians were taking chips from washing machines because they were needed to repair equipment?
Russia is fixing weapons with fridge and dishwasher parts
Western sanctions making it virtually impossible for Kremlin’s armed forces to secure correct components to fix military machineswww.telegraph.co.uk
This same outlet also said Wagner had resorted to using shovels because they were running low on ammunition.
Oh ya, they also propped up the ‘Ghost of Kiev’, which we all know was just more Ukrainian propaganda.
If you want to see what being propagandized looks like, look no further than Jaskalas!
BTW, nice use of the bold lettering and bullet points, really helps DRIVE the point across!
🤡
Ok fascist pig.Isn’t this the same outlet that said Russians were taking chips from washing machines because they were needed to repair equipment?
Russia is fixing weapons with fridge and dishwasher parts
Western sanctions making it virtually impossible for Kremlin’s armed forces to secure correct components to fix military machineswww.telegraph.co.uk
This same outlet also said Wagner had resorted to using shovels because they were running low on ammunition.
Oh ya, they also propped up the ‘Ghost of Kiev’, which we all know was just more Ukrainian propaganda.
If you want to see what being propagandized looks like, look no further than Jaskalas!
BTW, nice use of the bold lettering and bullet points, really helps DRIVE the point across!
🤡
Thats what you get when you dont hold Fox and kin accountable. That’s a Tucker Carlson metastasis right there.It's such a shame we have to deal with an infestation of Orange Locusts.
Video of Donald Trump Supporter Saying They'd Vote for Putin Goes Viral
"Putin wants to go back to good morality," a Trump supporter said in the viral video.
Trump's RNC Chair Includes Ukraine in List of US Adversaries
Trump's hand-picked RNC Chair, Michael Whatley, listed Ukraine with China and Iran among aggressive countries on the world front.
Ike would have run them all out of the country.
No war will ever 'finish' Russia. No war ever has and many have tried.
Russia can only be changed from within and has been so many times before. The key is for the people to say enough is enough. Russia knows that and is trying to use it on western nations trying to get the people (MAGAts) and other right wing extremists to rise up against established governments.
This current phase will not end by western arms. It will only end when the Russian people want it to end enough that they, from within overthrow Silly Putty and his clones.
It could also end in a negotiated treaty where Ukraine is left with a rump state. From my perspective, the worst possible outcome would be Western boots on the ground. That action could easily result in nuclear weapon exchanges and possibly a civilization ending nuclear holocaust.
If Putin launches a nuke, then the Kremlin and all of Putin's bunkers and palaces throughout Russia immediately become glass rubble piles
So does most of the planet.
Assuming that Russia has maintained it's nuclear deterrent sufficiently that they actually work when keys are turned and red buttons are pressed.
Before the 2022 Ukraine Invasion I would have considered this a given, after not so much.
They have something north of 5000 warheads. If any non-zero fraction of them work, that's all that matters.
The question is how many of those are missiles versus tactical nuclear weapons to be delivered via artillery to dropped by a aircraft? Does Russia even have enough working delivery systems to place them onto the targets that it wants around the world?
Then we have to consider how much the west should take into account Russia's nuclear blackmail to allow Russia to get it's way in Ukraine? This entire war in Ukraine is over Russia's expansion of it's borders after 2014.